THE STIEGLITZ REVOLUTION THE SHOW FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 5, 2018 / BOOTH B12

Artist, Rebel, Publisher, Philosopher, Promoter and pioneering Gallerist, (1864- 1946) played the starring role in the emergence and development of American . In the early years, Stieglitz fostered the pictorialist movement, while bringing the most important European avant-garde artists to American shores and the attention of collectors and artists (names such as Cézanne, Rodin, Matisse, Braque, Picasso, Brancusi, Picabia and Severini).

Later, he established and promoted the central canonical group of American modernists, including Bluemner, Lachaise, Maurer, Nadelman and Walkowitz. Stieglitz used every imaginable resource to showcase the foundational artists of modernism, and allow the artists he gathered around him to develop a singularly American response to the avant-garde ideas of the early STIEGLITZ’S GALLERIES THE LITTLE GALLERIES OF THE PHOTO- 20th century. (“291”) 1905-1917 After 1915, he principally championed American 291 Fifth Avenue (moves to 293 Fifth Avenue in 1908) modernists and the “7 Americans”, formalized ANDERSON GALLERIES 1921-1925 in a 1925 exhibition presenting the work of 489 Park Avenue Demuth, Dove, Hartley, Marin, O’Keeffe, THE INTIMATE GALLERY Strand and Stieglitz himself. His publications, 1925-1929 489 Park Avenue, Room 303 including the influentialCamera Work, were instrumental in disseminating his ideas about AN AMERICAN PLACE 1929-1946 photography and to a general public. 509 Madison Avenue, Room 1710 Through his succession of galleries from 1905- 1946, the artists Stieglitz exhibited and the ideas he promoted changed the course of 20th century art in America. (1877-1943) EDWARD J. STEICHEN Ladies Gloves No. 2, 1937-38 (1870-1953) (1879-1973) ARNOLD NEWMAN Seal Rocks, 1919 “Le Penseur” and “Victor Hugo”, OSCAR BLUEMNER (1918-2006) Paris, 1902 (1867-1938) Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia Moonlight Fantasy, 1930 O’Keeffe, New York City, 1944

MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943) JOHN MARIN On the Beach, 1940 (1870-1953) EDWARD J. STEICHEN Waterfront, , 1936 (1879-1973) Moonrise, The Pond, 1904 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (1887-1986) CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI Oak Leaves, 1923 (1876 - 1957) View of the Studio: Chimera with New Born, c. 1921

ALFRED STIEGLITZ MARSDEN HARTLEY (1864-1946) GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (1877-1943) , printed c. 1907 (1869-1954) (1887-1986) Self Portrait, 1908 Nu au Rocking Chair, 1913 Starlight, Lake George, 1922 PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906) Les Baigneurs Grande Planche (The Large Bathers), 1896-97

ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864-1946) ALFRED MAURER Winter on Fifth Avenue, 1893; (1868-1932) printed late 1920s-early 1930s Landscape, c. 1914-20 GERTRUDE KÄSEBIER (1866-1944) Happy Days, 1903 (1881-1973) Nature morte au compotier ALVIN LANGDON (Bloch 18), 1908-1909 COBURN (1882-1966) Alfred Stieglitz, Esq., 1908 (1890-1976) White Picket Fence, 1917

ELIE NADELMAN (1882-1946) HEINRICH KUHN (1866-1944) Classical Head, c. 1910-1911 Portrait of the Artist’s Son Hans, (1883-1935) c. 1906 Roses, 1926 (1840-1917) Draped Figure, 1890 PAUL STRAND (1890-1976) Photograph (bowls), 1916

ELIE NADELMAN (1882-1946) Kneeling Figure, c. 1915 (1880-1946) Yours Truly, 1937 (1883-1965) (1878-1965) Bucks County Barn, c. 1918 Bathers, 1908 (1882-1935) Mask: Portrait of Marie Pierce, 1925

ELIE NADELMAN (1882-1946) CHARLES SHEELER GEORGIA ENGELHARD Standing Female Figure, (1883-1965) MAX WEBER (1906-1986) c. 1908-1909 On a Connecticut Theme, (1881-1961) Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz with JOHN MARIN c. 1948 Nudes in Landscape, c. 1911 “”, c. 1942 (1870-1953) Off Deer Isle, Maine, 1928